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Origin and Etymology of pandemic

Late Latin pandemus, from Greek pandēmos of all the people, from pan- + dēmos people — more at demagogue

Examples of pandemic in a Sentence

… globalization, the most thoroughgoing socioeconomic upheaval since the Industrial Revolution, which has set off a pandemic of retrogressive nationalism, regional separatism, and religious extremism. —Martin Filler, New York Review of Books, 24 Sept. 2009

… it also hopes to utilize this cultural investigation to better understand strategies to reduce the massive pandemic we now understand cigarette smoking to produce. —Allan M. Brandt, The Cigarette Century, 2007

There is evidence that this gambling pandemic is going global. —Gerri Hirshey, New York Times Magazine, 17 July 1994

In ten years that it raged, this pandemic took or ravaged the lives of nearly five million people before it disappeared, as mysteriously and suddenly as it had arrived, in 1927. —Oliver Sacks, Awakenings, 1973

The 1918 flu pandemic claimed millions of lives.

Recent Examples of pandemic from the Web

With this knowledge, Russell’s discovery took on characteristics of a pandemic that was set to claim 30 million people, but neither he nor anyone could do a thing at that point to stop it.

The U.K. Parliament said a cyberattack targeting user email accounts hit its computer network, just weeks after Britain’s health service was caught up in a giant internet pandemic that swept the globe.

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